No bulls-eye: Playful shark halts China military exercise

A curious bullhead shark was attracted to the waters of Chinese naval drills by the colorful balloon targets being used. The fish forced the officers to hold fire.

A Chinese naval flotilla was conducting a drill on an escort
mission to the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, when the shark
appeared, stopping the exercise, the South China Morning Post
newspaper reported on Thursday.

According to the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) naval news
portal, the flotilla was led by the replenishment ship Weishanhu.
Its gunners laid out dozens of bright balloons as targets in a
two-nautical-mile area.

In 2015, Russia and China are set to conduct regular joint naval
exercises in the Mediterranean and Pacific. The countries’
defense ministers seek to form a regional collective security
system in the Asia-Pacific region, they revealed at a meeting
last November, TASS reported.